"Skip" Connors on Circo

"Skip" Connors

16643 ~ White Rose
16644 ~ Hearts Win You Lose

Circo Records 102

A Product Of Stereophonics Corp.
New Bedford, Mass.

1966

Stereophonics was owned and managed by W Edward Metcalf.  Sound engineer (and also acting as producer) was Carl German. From 1966 to 1966, some 50 singles were issued on Circo and Arco, two labels who shared the same numerical series.

In 1968, Stereophonics was renamed Metcalf Recording Studios with records issued unto the seventies on labels such Sadbird and Laurel.

Arco/Circo discography (45s only, but at least one LP was issued : "Fabulous New Organ Sounds of Dave ' Mr Talent'  Fredericks".

A Hodge-Podge Of Off-Beat Jazz

Music For Collectors
Presents
A Hodge-Podge Of Off-Beat Jazz

857 45th Avenue

San Francisco Calif 94121

Late 1969 or early 1970

Side 1 –  #25555

That's a plenty (Slim and his Hot Boys) --
St. Louis blues (Broadway Broadcasters) --
I'm wild about horns on automobiles (Billy Hays orchestra) --
Gut bucket shuffle (Harris Brothers Texans) --
Goin' back to Tennessee (Boyd Senter and his Senterpedes) --
The same old moon (Virginia Willrich and her Texas Rangers) --
Down where the blue bonnets grow (Phil Baxter orchestra) --
She's a gorgeous thing (Doc Daughertry orchestra) -

Side 2 –  #25556

Aristocratic stomp (Paul Tremaine orchestra) --
Wha'd ja do to me (Snooks and his Memphis Ramblers) --
Band box shuffle (Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra) --
In a corner (Cecil Scott and his Bright Boys) --
You need some lovin' (Johnny Dunn and his band) --
Variety stomp (Fess Williams and his Royal Flush Orchestra) --
Weary stomp (Curtis Mosley and his Dixieland Blue-Blowees) --
Washboard wiggles (Tiny Parham and his musicians).


1927-1931 jazz band recordings regrouped by San Francisco collector Stephen Prosper.  Further Stephen Foster compilations for collectors were re-issued on Alan Roberts' Sunbeam Records, a jazz re-issue label out of Van Nuys.

Stephen Prosper died sometimes in 1974 or 1975.


(Record found at Alexander Stewart's blog Collector Not Complelist

Alicia Karrol on Jon-Don

Alicia Karrol

14939 – You Excite Me

 

JD-105

E. Forest & P. Connelly, Sandra Music Publishing Co. BMI 

sample

14940 – Feeling Of Love

 JD-106

 

E. Forest & N. Meadows, Sandra Music Publishing Co. BMI

Arranged-engineered by Earl Forest

Jon-Don 2011

1965

 

Unknown torch singer Alicia Karrol, perhaps from Memphis.

 

For another record arranged and engineered the same year by drummer and singer Earl Forest, see http://thatsallritemama.blogspot.fr/2010/02/earl-forest-on-tuff-stuff.html

Joey Welz on Bat

Joey Welz And His Rock-A-Billy Piano

CP-2356 - Boppin' The Stroll

(Joey Welz, Gil Music Corp.)

CP-2357 - Shore Party

BAT 100

A Fly By Night Recording

BAT Records
2203 Maryland Ave.,Baltimore 18, MD.

[October 1959]

First issued record of the self-proclaimed “Boogie Woogie King of Rock n' Roll”. 

Joseph Wallace Welzant was born in 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland.  Welz has written over 1000 published songs, recorded over 35 vinyl albums, 75 singles and 60 CDs.   

Official website

Joey Welz, Louis Hinkle, Charles Shriner

Joey Welz: 

I first started the band business of making Baltimore our stomping ground for this new type of music. We were the first rock & roll band in Baltimore and actually our roots were rockabilly. The group was called the Jayrockers with Sam Cataldie on drums, and Jimmy Staggs on guitar, myself on piano and we had a bassplayer by the name of Greggard and later replaced by a slapping bassman by the name of Flirby. The Jayrockers made their first recordings in Baltimore in 1955 "The Jitterbug Rock", "I'm Lonesome" and "You're The One".  The way that this worked was that I figured if I could get a group togehter I could open for Bill Haley and get to know the band and consequently that's what happened.   

In 1957, Joey formed a new band known as the Rock-A-Billies. The line up featured: Lou Hinkle on drums, Charlie Shirner on lead guitar and Flurry (or Flirby?) on stand up bass. By this time, Joey was using the Monumental Studios in Baltimore, and got a more professional sound with Will Taylor at the controls as engineer.

Quite of interest is a recent post on the tapwrecks blog titled :  Boy With A Dream (and some scissors and glue) .... The Real Joey Welz (Baltimore 1950s-70s / Lancaster 1980s-present) . Excerpt :

For years, Joey has promoted his act out of his house and has his own rock'n'roll museum. He cuts and pastes his face into photos of famous musicians including the Comets and the Beatles for his press kits. Many of his original songs from the 50s and 60s have his more recent Roland keyboard and drum machine inexplicably overdubbed, so it's really hard to know what to make of the "Joey Welz Legend."

 

Danny Reeves on L.G. Gregg

Danny Reeves

9495 - Little Red Coat 

L.G. Gregg and Danny Reeves, L.G. Gregg Music Pub. Co. BM

9496 - Judgement Day

L.G. Gregg Records #1001/2
8414 Fulton, Houston, Texas

1963

This is certainly the same Danny Reeves who had recorded two rockin' singles.  The first was on Pappy Dailey's D Records ("I'm A Hobo", 1961). The second was on Troy Caldwell's San Records ("Spunky Monkey", 1962). Both are listed by Rockin' Country Style discography.  

 

On this one, Danny isn't really singing, he's just speaking on a music background.  Nothing more is known about him.  

L.G. Gregg is perhaps L.G. Gregg who was the founder and pastor of the Pilgrim Baptist Church of Houston.   And, more recently, a L. G. Gregg Ministries Company was based in Mesa, Arizona.

At the address printed on the label, there is no house today, just a empty lot.

The Vocalaries Of Newport News, Virginia

The Vocalaries Of Newport News, Virginia

29973 — Nobody Knows

(George Washington, Dora Music BMI)

Vocal George Washington

29974 — Rescue Me

 (Jerry Bond, Dora Music BMI) 

Vocal Daryl Harris

Spiritual Produced By Bill Johnson/Earl Long

Pinewood Records 

2732 Beachmont Ave.
Norfolk, Virginia 23534 

(Best On Wax)

1972 (August)

The Vocalaries had at least three singles on the same label before this one.  

Pinewood label discography

Pinewood owner, manager and engineer was Bill Johnson.

Chester Hooks And The Vibrants

Chester Hooks And The Vibrants

16173 ~ Long Route Home

(Chester Hooks, Georgianna Pub. BMI)

16174 ~ 60 Seconds
sample

 

Knoll 168

1966

Label owned by Doris Knoll. Address of Georgianna Music Publishers was 16004 Euclid Avenue, East Cleveland, Ohio.

Glenna Dean Case (Brite Star 767)

Glenna Dean Case 

With Ray Guyce And His Lonesome Valley Boys

CP-3333 ~ Thank You So Much (Ray Guyce)

CP-3334 ~ Broken Hearted (Marshall & Geraldine Page)

Both Starday Music BMI

Country Music

Vocal With String Accomp.

Brite Star 767

Mt. Vernon, Indiana

1960

(Billboard, Jan. 23, 1961, C&W)

Ray Guyce and Glenna Dene

(from http://www.hillbilly-music.com/index.php)

Glenna Dene was born in 1944 in Evansville, Indiana.  She also recorded on the Eunice record label in 1960-1961 (See Rockin' Country Style)

Ray Guyce discography (compiled by Dick Grant)

Writers of "Broken Hearted"  were from Grand Prairie, Texas.  Marshall Page was one of the Original Texas Wranglers, hillbilly group heard on KCLW radio in Hamilton, Texas in the early fifties. 

The Crusader on DIP

The Crusader

18839 – Wake Up, My People
18840 – We Need Wallace For President

   DIP

P.O. Box 96

Beech Grove, Indiana

1967

George Wallace, Conservative governor of Alabama, ran for President in the 1968 election as the American Independent Party candidate,

"George Wallace forged an alliance with many country singers, such as Autry Inman, Hank Snow, and the Wilburn Brothers, who participated often in his campaigns for the Alabama governorship and for the presidency.  Racism was certainly one factor which contributed to Wallace's popularity, but his southern rural/populist roots also made him appealing to many of the "good old boys and girls" who picked guitars and sang.  Wallace identified with country music, but he also spoke the same language, ate the same food, and responded to the same cultural traditions (both good and bad) that most country musicians understood.  He linked his southerness with their own, while also tapping vaguely understood, but often legitimate, feelings of alienation that many Americans everywhere felt.

The George Wallace-country music alliance was a major factor which contributed to the music's rediscovery by the media - the belief that at worst the music represented reactionary and racist politics, or that at best it spoke for alienated American working people."

 From "The Reinvigoration of Modern Country Music", in Country Music U.SA., by Bill C. Malone


Credit : Label and sound file are from "Here Comes Rock And Roll"  Collector CLCD4522. 

The Symphonics on Bock

The Symphonics

CP-5027 –  She's My Girl

CP-5028 –  Milliionair Hobo

Bock 5001

March 1961

Based on the Rite account (#446) found in dead wax, this has to be from Ohio, perhaps Cleveland.  The earliest known release from account 446 is Falcon #501 Milan Shepel, Rip It Up b/w Blueberry Hill.  

Bill Campbell on Zappo

Bill Campbell

28233 - You Better Not Do That (T. Collins)

28234 - Venita

Recorded by John Lookabill, Greensboro, N.C.
    

Zappo Presents

1971

sample (both sides)

★

Side one is a cover of the Tommy Collins song recorded on Capitol Records (1954).   

For another Lookabill recording, see Rhythm Rockers/Tex Craddrock. Did he owned a studio in Greensboro ?

John Lookabill and Bill Campbell are both on a video posted on YouTube HERE

See Tommy Collins singing "You Better Not Do That" on the Buck Owens Ranch Show in 1966 HERE

No further info.

Bob Strack / Vern Kenyon (Cowtown LP 205)

Bob Strack / Vern Kenyon

Cowtown Records

CLP #205

P.O.Box 192, Avery, Texas

1960

Side 1 – CP-3903
Vocal by Bob Strack

1. Welcome Elvis (J.W. Stephenson-H.Conley) Tronic Music -BMI
2. Panorama Drive (Lou Bridges) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
3. Danny (C.Zumwatt) Faye Music-BMI
4. 63rd Street Has The Chicks (J.J. Felder) Stephenson Music 
5. There Must Be A Way (J.W. Evans-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic-BMI
6. Come All Ye Kin Folks (W.W.Lundgren) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
7. Home Is Two Loving Arms (N.E. Ahmdeo-J.W.Stephenson) Golden State BMI
8. Never Before (Val McDonald) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
9. Play It Square (E.M. Sutton) Blue Ribbon Music Co. ASCAP
10. Won't You Talk To Your Heart (W.W. Lundgren) Blue Ribbon Music ASCAP
11. When The Singing Hit The Ceiling (J.H. Garrett-J.W. Stephenson) Golden State BMI

Side 2 – CP-3904
Vocal by Vern Kenyon

12. Deca Darling (W.F. Schuck-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
13. Honey Bee Bop (W.F. Schuck-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
14. She Doesn't Love Me Anymore (T.W.McLaughlin-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI
15. The Picture On The Wall (M.Sullivan-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI 
16. Put Your Heart In My Hands (L. Neptune-J.W.Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
17. Stuff And Nonsense (I.Morical- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI  
18. My Hearts Breaking Because Of You (T.W. McLaughlin-J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
19. Just Not Caring ( (I.Morical- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI    
20. Green Eyed Gal (M. McCoy- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
21. Fair Weather Love (W.F. Schuck- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI   
22. Ada, Ada (W.F. Schuck- J.W. Stephenson) Tronic BMI

The three links above are YouTube posts from user (what a ugly word) named Starday.

★

Frenchy And The Underground Railroad

Frenchy And The Underground Railroad

26941 - We're Lonely /(Frenchy, ASCAP)

26942 - Trip (Real Carpentier, ASCAP)

Sterling 518

1970

★ 

At the time of the recording, the personnel (13-14 years old, except Frenchy, eight years older) of the group consisted of Frenchy (Yves Carpentier) on vocals, Real Carpentier on vocals and bass, Gene Daigle on vocals and guitar, Bob Fissette on guitar, Rob St. George on drums, and Dave LaCasse on vocals and percussion. The band was managed by Ron Bachand and Alfred Brissette.  

 

The band story is told by Mr. Bellino in his latest post (at Rip It Up R.I.)  a blog celebrating the glory of rock and roll and garage bands from the state of Rhode Island in the 1960s.

 ★

 

If confirmation was needed, this is a proof that Lew Tobin's Sterling Records wasn't just a song-poem operation,   If the bulk of the label ouput was amateur poems put in music by Lew Tobin and "sung" by Norm Burns, Gary Roberts, Mel Moore and al. ,  occasionally local bands were recorded. 

 

Real Carpentier today

http://www.reverbnation.com/realcarpentier

Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Jack O. Knowles, V.M.D. Miami Florida
Lester E. Fisher, D.V.M.,Berwyn, Illinois

CP-4969 - Diagnosis and Management of Liver Diseases

Mark Morris Associates

531 Guaranty Bank Bldg. Denver 2, Colo.

33rpm 7"

 [March 1961]

★

Spoken word.  A veterinary education record.  

Continue your education and read about this (and hear a sample too and its follow-up, "The Aged Dog" ) in one of the latest posts by Lisa Wheeler  HERE. 

Woof! Woof!

   

Evelyn and Al Downing

Evelyn Downing Sings...

"Angel Eyes"

Featuring Al (A.J.) Downing Jazz Quintet

AJD Records

1976

 

Side 1 - 36261

Angel Eyes / Sunshine Of My Life / Rainy Day / Help Me Make It Through The Night / Bye Bye Blackbird / Satin Doll

 

Side 2 - 36262
When Sunny Gets Blue / There Will Never Be Another You / Bunny / Love Will Keep Us Together / Blue Groove

 

AJD Records 

2121 25th Street So.

St. Petersburg, Fla. 33712   

 

Recorded at Titan Sound Studio Largo, Florida

★ 

 

Evelyn Downing

Evelyn Jean Downing was born on February 13, 1950 to Alvin and Bernice Downing, the second of three daughters.

Evelyn attended Sixteenth Street Jr. High School and graduated from Dixie Hollins High School.During her high school years, her parents nurtured her gifted singing ability by featuring her vocal talents in many of her father's performances.  Her style was her own.  She was encouraged, guided and inspired by her parents and as a result of their love of jazz, they founded the Allegro Music Society, now known as the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association.  Her father served as president, her mother served as vice president and Evelyn was the first member of the association.  After graduating from high school, she studied Theatre Arts at Carnegie Tech in Philadelphia, Pa. and attended Florida A & M University in Tallahassee, Fl.   In the early 70's, Evelyn successfully began a career as a professional jazz vocalist featured with her late father, renowned jazz pianist and music educator, Alvin J. Downing.  Her most prized accomplishment was recording the album "Angel Eyes" with her father.  She performed with a variety of jazz artists in cities throughout the United States including Atlanta, Georgia, Naples, Miami, Tampa, and St Petersburg, Florida, New Orleans, Louisiana, Little Rock, Arkansas, Denver, Colorado and Los Angeles, California.  Early in her career while performing in Atlanta, she was recognized as the top performing artist at Pascal's and the Clock of Fives Dinner Club located in the Regency Hotel.  She was known for her elegant wardrobe especially designed for her by the late internationally known designer Patrick Kelly. 

Alvin “Al” Joseph Downing was born in 1916 in Jacksonville, Florida.

   

Al Downing is legendary to those who remember the golden days of jazz in St. Petersburg.

 Piano talent and a desire to perpetuate jazz among young people everywhere were two qualities Al possessed from the time he was a young man in his hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. He formed his first band in high school, pursued music throughout his college days and organized music programs at Gibbs High School when he moved to St. Petersburg, in 1939.

Al served with the Tuskegee Airmen before leading the 613th Army Air Force Band in Tuskegee. He then moved on to other military bands in the U.S. and Japan. When he retired in 1961 as a major, Al went back to school for a Master of Music before returning to St. Petersburg. He taught first at Gibbs and then for another 20 years at St. Petersburg Junior College.

Retiring in 1983, he continued teaching privately. He was recognized as an Ambassador of Jazz by the Clearwater Jazz Holiday Foundation and named Tampa Bay’s Favorite Artist by Players Magazine. Al firmly believed in an organization to promote jazz and in 1981, he formed the Al Downing Florida Jazz Association. It merged in 1989 with the Tampa Bay Jazz Society and has existed as the Al Downing Tampa Bay Jazz Association, Inc. ever since.

Al died in 2000, but his outstanding reputation as a performer, an educator and a humanitarian carries on. To honor him, Perkins Elementary School for the Arts and International Studies dedicated its theater to his memory in 2001. In 2004, the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Suncoast placed his likeness in the role models mural in their newly renovated, historic Royal Theater performing arts center.

Sources : 

• http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Evelyn-Downing/1212042372
• http://aldowningjazz.com/history.php
• http://www.jazzlandcafe.com/
• http://www.sptimes.com/News/022200/TampaBay/Al_Downing__83__jazz_.shtml
  
  

The Firesiders on Sterling

 

The Firesiders

 

9881 ~  Spring

9882 ~  Jump And Twist

 

Sterling Records #268

1963

Two instrumentals

 

Quite surprising but, yes,  this is on the same song-poem Sterling label owned by music veteran Lew Tobin in Boston, Mass.

Lew Tobin had operated Five Star Music Masters since the early forties and  Sterling Records since 1954.  The earliest record on Sterling I was able to find is #103,   "His Final Address" sung by Roy Jones with Lew Tobin's orchestra.  "This tribute to Hank Williams is both late and unimpressive" simply wrote the Billboard reviewer (Billboard, February 27, 1954).  Hank Williams, incidentally also recorded on Sterling Records, obviously a different label (out of New-York).

 

Lew Tobin and Sterling Records were still active as late as 2002 : that year, in September, they recorded "America's Song" a poem written by Blanche Shipley (1914-2002), a retired teacher, who pieced and tied many quilts after her retirement. 

 

Sterling label discography

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans on PAQ

Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans

10845 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 1
10846 ~ Coconut Stomp  Part 2

Bushbaum & Flaharty, Ridge Pub. BMI (both)

Recorded Live at The Coconut Lounge

PAQ Records

A Young American Production No. 21

1963

Note : recorded in a Dayton studio (not live, and neither in Springfield)

★ 

The saga of the Stomp

The song went like this:

“There’s a place I know where the cool kittens go, it’s a place that the hippies found, where you stomp and shout and knock yourself out, it’s a place called the Coconut Lounge.”

The song, “Coconut Stomp (Part I),” by Sonny Flaharty and His Young Americans, is as primal and enthusiastic as the day it was cut, 47 years ago.

And that’s the problem.

“It still makes me want to dance,” Flaharty, now 68, confessed, “but I can’t afford the hip replacement.”

While they hailed from Moraine, Flaharty and the Young Americans became the house band at the Coconut, playing their own shows, opening for national acts and even backing acts like The Crystals, which didn’t have a touring band.

“We were always pretty starstruck with the people we were with,” recalled Flaharty, who mostly writes music nowadays for his Unity church in Southern California and has become something of a legend with collectors of ’60s garage-rock records.

While backing The Orlons locally, Flaharty heard a word in their song “South Street” that intrigued him.

Hippie.

“I had never heard that word before,” he said, “but I thought it was cool.”

Cool enough to be included in his own tribute to the kids who hung out at the Coconut.

“They were hip and needed their own dance,” he said.

The song became a regional hit, even making the list of the most-requested songs at the Peppermint Stick, a similar club in Lima.

But pay no attention to the fact that the record says the song was “recorded live at the Coconut Lounge.”

It was actually recorded in a Dayton studio, Flaharty revealed, with the aid of a sound-effects record for crowd noises.

 ★ 

 

 

Doug Porter :

By 1960, I was Sonny Flaharty and the Young Americans' full time drummer. I was still in Junior High School. I stayed with the Young Americans for about 5 years, until we broke up. We traveled every weekend. We backed up many of the early stars. We all were card-toting musicians and I could site read. We worked with Lou Christie, Bobby Vinton, The Shirelles, The Four Seasons, Bobby Darin, Chuck Berry, The Four Tops (we backed the Tops up several times and they offered me a road job but I was still in high school). The list goes on and on but one sticks out with me.

The Rolling Stones came to Dayton, Ohio just about the time the Young Americans were at their peak and we were the opening band for them. We shared the dressing room with the Stones. That is a story all to itself. Soon after that, the group broke up. It consisted of Sonny on lead vocals and sometimes rhythm guitar,Terry Nieus on lead guitar, Mike Flaharty on bass, me on drums, Ray Bushbaum on piano/organ, and Bobby Brain on tenor sax.

We never played nightclubs - just road gigs, proms and private parties. Bobby Brain came to us from Teddy & The Rough Riders. They were also a hot group in the area. We both played things for WING radio. Check out: www.thecoolgroove.com. That's Jim Colegrove's site out of Texas. You'll see Sonny and I both mentioned. I played in Jim's band, the Knights, when the Young Americans parted ways.

★ 

Sources:

•  " The stars were hot when they played the Coconut Lounge" (Springfield New Sun  : Dec. 23, 2010)
• An Interview with Doug Porter of the Mark V
• Sonny Flaharty's page at Rockin' Country Style

Live At The Zodiac (Various Artists)

 

( Various Artists)

Live At The Zodiac

Rite 29981/2

August 1972

Side 1 :

Royal American Showmen: Dance To The Music

Mississippi Rain: That’s Why I Sing The Blues
Katmandu: Mississippi Queen
Strawbridge: Run Run Run
Union Jack: No One To Depend On

Side 2 :

Mace: Revival
Everybody’s Pillow: Don’t Eat The Children
Sweet Fever: Your Love Took Me By Surprise
Age Of Aquarius: Slippin’ Into Darkness
Papa Joe’s Traveling Show: Miami
Bacchus: Where Are You Going

Produced by Gerrald Stephenson with contributions of Frasco Entertainement Agency (Jackson, Mississippi), WRBC, Band Aid Entertainement (Baton Rouge, Louisiana), Malaco Records (Jackson, Mississippi)

★ 

Malaco started as a partnership between two brothers-in-law Mitch Malouf and Tommy Couch as a company focused on booking musical acts.  Somewhere along the way Gerald "Wolf" Stephenson bought out Mitch.  They evolved into a recording studio when Wolf came on board.  Wolf owned the Zodiac Club  in Mart 51, a shopping center on Terry Road in Jackson.  He had just remodeled the club and had started bringing in bands to play every night.

In 1967, Malaco opened a recording studio in a building that remains the home of Malaco. Experimenting with local songwriters and artists, the company began producing master recordings. Malaco needed to license their early recordings with established labels for national distribution. Between 1968 and 1970, Capitol Records released six singles and a Grammy Award-nominated album by Mississippi Fred McDowell.  Revenue from record releases was minimal, however, and Malaco survived doing jingles, booking bands, promoting concerts, and renting the studio for custom projects.

★ 

Sources :  

• Wikipedia
• John Sumrall : Classic Magnolia Rock: History of Original Mississippi Rock and Roll 1953-1970 (book)
• current ebay auction
• Brave Old Waves blog

Note : last link has separate audio files for each track. I've gathered the eleven tracks HERE for your convenience.

Arthelene Rippy

 Arthelene Rippy

It's A New Life

New Life Records

Evangelist & Mrs F. Don Rippy,

1100 South 14th, Fort Smith, Arkansas

Rite # 12419/20

1964

Accompanying Arthelene Rippy :

Dawn Crabtree, John R. Garrison, Sharon McClure, Kaye Middlebrook, Harold Brown, Juanita Debusk


Side 1 : It's A New Life / It's Not The First Mile / Man Of Galilee / I Believe / In The Garden / Oh How I Love Jesus

Side 2 : How Big Is God? / Wasted Years / When Jesus Forgives, He Forgets / Jesus, Lover Of My Soul / He Giveth More Grace / The Great Judgment Morning

★ 

An exhilarating existence

Arthelene Rippy's background of being a minister's daughter as well as her present status as a minister's wife, gives to her a wealth of experience in the realm of Gospel songs.  On this album,  Arthelene shares with you her own exhilarating existence in Christian living in the exciting theme song of "It's a new life!"  Her conception of God shines through in the challenging cry of "How Big is God?"  Suddenly, you are taken into His presence by such old favorites as "In the Garden".

A woman under constant influence

Since childhood, Arthelene Rippy has been under the constant influence of the Gospel. 
Dr. B. Owen Oslin,Pastor, Evangel Temple, Fort Smith

 ★ 

Arthelene Rippy's father was Rev. R.A. McClure. She divorced Don Rippy in November 1975.   Rev. Don Rippy was found dead in his apartment in St. Petersburg, Florida in September 1977.

Arthelene Rippy has been with CTN (Christian Television Network) since it began in 1978. Tragic events in her life left her to raise her family alone, but God used this tragedy for His glory through "Solo Act,"  Arthelene's first CTN program that inspired millions of other struggling single mothers. In 1995 Arthelene shifted gears to address the needs of the entire family with her nationwide program, "Homekeeper's"

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

Andy Jennings & Cindy Miller

"My Everything Is You"

    Limited Edition Recordings

2231 Stratford Road Richmond VA.

    RR-42420
1982

Side A:

My Everything Is You  / I Sing The Body Electric / Casey's Lastride / Bunch Of Thyme / Donna Donna / Where Do You Go To My Lovely

Side B :
The Sea Around Us / The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda / Rattling Bog / Beautiful Brown Eyes / Whiskey In The Jar


College student at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Cindy Miller was an upper class woman from New-Jersey when, just before she graduated, she met Irishman Andy Jennings. 

Cindy & Andy formed a partnership on and off the stage.  They performed authentic Irish music for 30 years.  Andy was the Publican of Rare Olde Times Public House since 1994, where Andy and Cindy had guest performers on a regular basis.

Andrew P. "Andy" Jennins was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1961. He died in 2012 in Richmond, Virginia.

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